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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 8677201" data-attributes="member: 54364">I've just started running an urban fantasy game, using Hero System. 3 sessions in and so far, so good.It's set in London in 1986. We're going for a monster of the week vibe, with short arcs for other plot development. The first session was a not-quite a pub brawl in their local. It was a chance to introduce some recurring NPCs. The last 2 sessions were dealing with a kelpie who'd murdered a woman. The setting is fantasy kitchen sink. A masquerade is in place and out heroes are all firmly part of the demi-monde. Our session 0 was a brainstorm in which people threw out suggestions for things they wanted in the game. We wound up with all the things. Vamps, werewolves, fey, demons and angels, wizards'council. I'm doing my best to make my monsters different, or at least memorable.The vamps are all Sloane Rangers/Hooray Henries. The two main vamps (so far) are the heads of a (fictional) organisation called the Bermondsey Embankment Renewal Authority, BERA. BERA is seeking to "renew" the embankment area from Tower Bridge to Canada Water. This area includes the tech college where the PCs all work AND their local pub; there will be conflict. My werewolf is actually a were-malamut and the adventure with him is titled "An American Werewolf at Crufts." 1986 is also the last time Halley's Comet came by so I've got to work that in somehow. I'm thinking it opens a gate letting in space angels and space demons. The Irish Sidhe and the British Tylwyth Teg are fighting a proxy war, using The Troubles as their front.In terms of tone, it's comical in that the heroes are basically the Young Ones. I'm not sure that's actually occurred to the players yet, but that's how they're playing them. NPCs include someone I've described as a "goblin Del-Boy" and two cops who are Burnside and Tosh from early seasons of The Bill. Our vamps and BERA are going to be my segue into Yes Minister (Humphrey Applebey is obviously a senior vampire.)I have a playlist that includes many of the best songs of the period. But nothing is allowed until it has had it's UK release.</blockquote>

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